audience restriction

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The restriction of a message to a specific target audience to prevent a receiver from unknowingly processing a message that is intended for another recipient. In federation protocols, assertions are audience-restricted to specific RPs to prevent an RP from accepting an assertion that was generated for a different RP.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-63-4 [

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